UW Bothell

The University of Washington's Bothell (UW Bothell) campus is located approximately 20 miles northeast of Seattle in the Puget Sound region's high technology corridor; the Bothell campus of the University of Washington first opened its doors in 1990. The school moved to its new location, a state-of-the art facility in a beautiful setting at the north end of Lake Washington, in the fall of 2000. UW Bothell is undergraduate and graduate campus serving both traditional and non-traditional students in a variety of innovative and interdisciplinary degree programs.

Computing & Software Systems

Established in 1996, CSS offers degrees in computer science and computer systems applications. The Computing & Software Systems program offers high academic standards and expectations with a reputation characteristic of the University of Washington. The Bothell campus offers the advantages of a small campus with its excellent teaching and research opportunities, and a sense of community that comes from its comfortable size and congenial atmosphere.

CSS Faculty

Our faculty comes with backgrounds in computer science, software engineering, and closely related disciplines. Faculty are recruited from the nation's top institutions and are chosen for their teaching excellence, academic distinction, cutting-edge research, and real-world experience. The CSS faculty has close links with the Puget Sound area's most innovative high-tech companies.

CSS faculty are actively doing research in Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computer Graphics, Embedded Systems, Scientific Computing, Computer Vision, and Biocomputing. Students are encouraged to interact with professors in research projects.

Annual Report (2009 - 2010)

Our 2009-2010 annual report highlights our program's amazing and exciting growth and change. Learn about our increase in undergraduate enrollment, faculty research and new publications, student cooperative education projects, and our numerous events throughout the year that have helped further strengthen our ties with the local community.